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Just ran across this today.  Ah, memories!  Hard to believe that was 20 years ago.  It's good to see a new generation take over and go further than I could've ever imagined back in those early days.  I'm amazed anyone still remembers at all.

This guy's career is a puzzle to me.  Is he that bad defensively?  Puts up up numbers but can't seem to stick anywhere.

Yes he has signed.  
Here is my translation of the Finnish article:
"New player contract - versatile Jonas Häkkinen has signed with Vaasan Palloseura 
Vaasan Palloseura [VPS] has signed a player contract with the young Finnish player Jonas Häkkinen. The contract is 1+1 years. [unspecified whether the option is one way or two way] 
Jonas Häkkinen is a multi-functional player who owns both the Finnish and Canadian passports, and who can play both stopper and defensive midfielder. 
"For the last few years he has played stopper, but before that he has played defensive midfielder, as well", VPS head coach Petri Vuorinen comments. 
Häkkinen has played his entire career in Vancouver, where he has played in the Whitecaps academy. Häkkinen has Finnish parents and he speaks good Finnish, although his native tongue is English. 
"Jonas has trained with us for quite a while already. He came to Finland to uplift his career. Comparing him with other players of his generation (1999), I believe that he has the full potential to succeed in Finnish Premier League", Vuorinen analyzes. 
Very little about this promising player is known in Finland. Contact between the player and the club came through his agent. The youngster has trained with VPS for a month already. 
"The agent suggested that we give Jonas a trial. We decided to take him along and have been judging his play. In the last few years, many young players looking to develop have trialed for us. This time we found a good "match". I do not think many have heard of him here, even though he is Finnish. He is a new face for many here in that sense."
In addition to his playing skills, there is another thing Vuorinen specifically likes about Häkkinen. 
"He has a very tough but healthy attitude about sports and football in general. All that is right", Vuorinen comments. 
Jonas' own interview will be done during November. 
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Since it's my first post, I figure it's fine to use this space to say hello everybody, too. I am a VPS fan from Finland - a cold, stable Northern country, with an under-performing National Team with a history of promising players selecting some another country, and whose general public has an unhealthy obsession with this sticky-sport played on ice.
Suppose this description also explains to you all why I have somehow developed kind of a weird sympathetic affinity towards the "soccer people" in Canada, and hence I have been following your NT for the past few years, including lurking on this forum occasionally. So I figured that now that this guy signed with my local club team, it would be a good excuse to register here too. So I do hope you guys don't mind having me as an "outsider" for our countries are yet to develop a fierce rivalry in this sport. (Although I also wouldn't mind, if in the next few years one developed over Häkkinen's services at the senior level. )
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Would Jonas warrant his own thread, btw? Now that he's going to be playing here, I would be more than glad to contribute with updates on Jonas etc. since I watch every VPS game anyway.

The old days! To be fair, the CSA has a list at one time but never updated it. So I took that and just started combing websites, soccer computer games, emailing clubs asking if they had Canadians on the books.  Back then the net was a smaller place with fewer websites and clubs online the job seems so much more simple and manageable!

^ So, another Quebecois and Canada-eligible player at Lille B after Zohran Bassong.  He's signed to a 3.5 year contract at Lille so they must think well of him.
Brym is a 1998 so can't be a part of our next U20 team.  Says he hasn't been contacted by Soccer Canada.

^ So, another Quebecois and Canada-eligible player at Lille B after Zohran Bassong.  He's signed to a 3.5 year contract at Lille so they must think well of him.
Brym is a 1998 so can't be a part of our next U20 team.  Says he hasn't been contacted by Soccer Canada.

Charles-Andreas Brym
19 years old and at Lille..played with their second team in 17-18
https://www.lequotidien.com/sports/des-sacrifices-payants-pour-charles-andreas-brym-9755b3f07df94cb624d72ec4a1acca82
http://justesoccer.com/europe/france/charles-andreas-brym-je-pense-pouvoir-avoir-ma-chance/
https://ca.soccerway.com/players/charles-andreas-brym/538704/

Dieu Merci Yuma has signed with Sedan (French 4th tier) from Portuguese 4th tier side Electrico.  He had 21 goals in 15 games this season.
Ryan Reid has also signed with Sedan.  He played with Yumas this past season in Portugal.  Both players are 21 years old.
http://www.lardennais.fr/37297/article/2017-06-23/cinq-recrues-sedan

Cornelius scored Stabaek's only goal today as they lost 2-1 in a friendly against RPL team Amkar Perm. He was apparently one of the few bright spots for Stabaek as Perm dominated the game. Stabaek seems to have returned him to his more usual position as offensive mid while Terek played him as a defender but they had a lot of injuries in defence during camp so it might have been out of necessity not an intent to convert him. Incidentally, Stabaek's interest in Cornelius comes from having played against him when they played Terek in Malta while he was trialing with Terek. Looks good that one of the opposing teams during his first trial was impressed enough to give him a trial. Stabaek's next match is against another Russian team, Rostov, and I imagine Terek's interest in him probably has alerted the other Russian teams to him as well. This could end up a bit like the Olivier Occean situation where the New York Metro Stars brought him unsigned to training camp in Europe and he impressed another team who made him a better offer than New York. It looks like he has impressed on his trials and should end up at the very least at a much better level than the German 4th division. 
http://www.budstikka.no/stabak-fotball/fotball/sport/stabak-tester-flere-nye-i-dag/s/5-55-273031
http://www.budstikka.no/sport/fotball/stabak-fotball/senket-av-tidligere-stabak-spiss/s/5-55-273370
Here are the game highlights with his goal at 2:50
 

The QSF just reported on their Facebook page that Zakaria Messoudi has signed with Odd.

Not sure if this is posted anywhere else but apparently Hume landed in Spains 2nd division
 
http://www.marca.com/futbol/ponferradina/2016/02/08/56b8c287268e3e2f108b45dd.html